Overview

Vibeffect products are tailored to families with teens getting ready for college. They offer two applications that guide students, through the decision-making process.

Vibe Primer measures teens’ preferences in four key areas in order to identify the characteristics they most value and should look for when considering a college.

Vibe Differentiator helps students to identify which of their top college options, best fits their needs and expectations.

Highlights

Development

A back end built with Symfony2 and a RESTful API

For the front end:

AngularJS as our javascript framework and a lot of angular plugins for adding several things like rich text editors, emoji icons, etc, Sass for the CSS, HTML5

Automated compilation of sass scss files and Javascript using NPM, Gulp and Browserify

Design

A color palette that reflects Vibeffect’s established friendly color scheme, while also maintaining a vibe that corresponds with the app’s academic content

Customized icons and graphics

Results are reported in beautiful, easy to parse charts and bulleted summaries

Simple animations add interest to the application

Results

Since we built both apps from zero, we had the opportunity to apply current technologies like AngularJS. We also built a backend following the RESTFul approach, which opens up the possibility to easily use the current backend for a native mobile app build in the future.

We continue work implementing account editing for users and a service framework for processing payments.